On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mikael Bak <mik...@t-online.hu> wrote: > Dope Ice Apollyon the Third wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda >> <acam...@the00z.org> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: >>>> Hi list, >>>> I'm really new to openbsd, so please forgive me if this is faq or rtfm. >>>> >>>> I did try to search for information on how to be able to scroll with my >> laptop touchpad, but did not find any openbsd specific documentation. >>>> I'd be happy if someone could point me to any documentation describing how >> to do this in openbsd. >>>> My system: >>>> $ uname -a >>>> OpenBSD neo.my.domain 4.6 GENERIC#58 i386 >>>> >>>> My laptop: >>>> Dell Latitude CPt 400 >>>> (it's an old P2 400MHz) >>>> >>>> In WinXP a driver from synaptics made the scrolling work. >>>> >>>> TIA, >>>> -- >>>> Mikael Bak <mik...@t-online.hu> >>>> >>> First... investigate if the scrolling ins'n in hardware... >>> >>> (I read the manual of my eeepc and it said everything about "scrolling", >>> because the eeepc have some interesting ways to do it) >> >> It's not in hardware. On linux this is supported by the synaptics X >> touchpad driver. I would also really like to see this work on OpenBSD >> but I'm not awesome enough to know why it doesn't. I took a stab at >> compiling the synaptics driver (which you can google for) and it, of >> course, failed miserably (and yes I used gmake). >> >> I know that some features need a multitouch touchpad, but simple >> scrolling should just be able to work with any touchpad that can give >> an x,y coordinate. It's a pity. >> >> -Nick >> > > Abel, Nick, > Thanks both of you for responding!
Sorry, I missed this in my inbox before! > I also have the feeling that basic scrolling shouldn't depend on > specific hardware. I have used this same hw in WinXP and successfully > made the touchpad scroll. Zooming and other features may be hardware > dependent. > > Nick, you are telling me that people use openbsd and X and surf the web > as their primary OS without missing this feature? :-) We are the only > ones who whould like to use our old laptops this way? :-) > > > OK. I know the gig. If I want it to work I should download the source > code and fix it, then post the fix to a list with developers who can > review and submit the patches. I know that. I was just surprised such > basic thing haven't been targeted yet. Yeah I know. Strange, isn't it? I don't really know why. I think it must be because the devs all spend most of their time at the command line without even running X (I don't know how they can stand fvwm). And that's fine for them, but there's just a lot of tiny little UI advances that "desktops" have made in the last few years that I really would prefer not to live without, that unfortunately I have to on OpenBSD. I don't know enough to fix it myself and I don't have time to learn, which is sad because it means that, practically, if I want to not be in opposition to my UI all the time I have to use Ubuntu or something. > I just took a look at my other laptop (running Ubuntu) and its xorg.conf > has this: > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > Driver "synaptics" > Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" > Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0" > EndSection > > It seems to be a similar way in FreeBSD (PCBSD): > http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=9249 > > Oh well. If someone had any luck with this on OpenBSD, then please tell us. Ditto. Though I am not holding out hopes. There's long threads in the archives about how OpenBSD can /totally/ be used a a desktop but after a good 6 years of using OpenBSD I'm not so sure. Yeah, you can edit .docs and you can browse the web, and there are file browsers in ports, but everything hangs together like a Frankenstein monster. It seems no one has really put it through it's paces; for example, if I want Thunar to update files when I delete them I have to run FAM, but FAM for some reason spawns trackerd which eats my CPU. Anyway, that's not what this thread was about. Good holidays everyone! -Nick
